Becker, practice professor of nursing in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, has been selected as a Fellow in the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education.

The Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry is one of 11 researchers selected by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement to receive its Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Awards for 2024. Shelter’s award is for New Research Directions, which supports innovative research projects with potential to lead to a transformative line of inquiry.

Thachil is the director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India and associate professor of political science. His book, “Migrants and Machines: How Political Networks Form in Urbanizing India” was awarded the 2024 Giovanni Sartori Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA)’s Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Section and the 2024 Best Book award by APSA’s Experimental Research Section.

Music in the Stacks is a student-performer-centered concert series hosted in the Penn Libraries and run by the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Penn’s Music Department.

The paper, co-written by Shawn Patterson Jr. at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, demonstrates that the image Trump cultivated as the host of that show increased his vote share in the 2016 Republican primary—and that “apolitical” entertainment media can have important political consequences.

The program combines the curriculum of the Nursing and Healthcare Administration and Health Leadership Master’s programs beginning in the summer of 2025.